2023 / 21′ / Ukraine
My Dad is a Lightning Researcher and is a documentary film reflection. A daughter attempts to decipher and memorize the “universe of her dad,” a lightning researcher, whom, as it turned out after his death, she never fully got to know. Neither he nor his lasting legacy. This is her attempt to think about how long our memory lasts about the people who meant something to us, who did something and created something next to us. The film attempts to fix the fleeing clues of memory in time to keep it longer. And, of course, she attempts to remember everything or at least something he was for her.
Screenings
29.03.2024 / 14:00 / Hall 8
“Planeta Kino”, Blockbuster Shopping Mall, Stepana Bandery Avenue, 34B, Kyiv
At this screening, you will also see the films “When Will The Winter of 2022 End?“, directed by Hanna Trofimova, and “Fortress of Mariupol. Simon“, directed by Yulia Hontaruk.
Director: Iryna Shostak
Ira Shostak is a manager of creative communications projects, a poet, and a former student of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technologies of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (sociology, public relations). Currently, as a co-founder and manager, she oversees the work of the creative agency Linza Agency, and besides that, she also creates her small creative projects and initiatives.
In her creative work as a poetess, there is a poetry collection ‘Minlyva,’ and several publications in almanacs; as an artist — she participated in the group exhibition projects ‘Procrustes and the rest’ in the gallery named after O. Zamostyan and ‘Where I am’, participant of the EVTERPA poetry and music project, co-organizer of the series of music and poetry readings ‘White readings’ (2017), curator of the exhibition M. Matyashova ‘About the body’.
‘My dad — lightning researcher’ Iryna’s debut film. She poetically documents her journey in an attempt to capture Dad’s memory — her own and others’.
CREATIVE TEAM
- Producer: Ella Shtyka
- Screenplay: Iryna Shostak
- Cinematography: Iryna Shostak, Olena Kyrychenko
- Sound: Vladyslav Sirenko, Ella Shtyka
- Editing: Volodymyr Kulikov, Serhiy Dotsenko, Dmitry Tiazhlov
RIGHTS HOLDER
Iryna Shostak
Ari.shostak@gmail.com